(en) ''Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland'', No. 207. From Dublin to WEXFORD, 1835. Archive.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-29, quote: "BLACKROCK, in Dublin, is the most celebrated sea-bathing place in the vicinity of the capital. The streets are rather confined, but the extraordinary beauty of the country residences, and of the sea-shore, secures to the Rock a long train of equestrian visitors and jaunting cars, which have, however, considerably decreased since the railway to Kingstown was established.
